She plans to attend Wofford College in Spartanburg, S.C., and continue on to get her medical degree - something Lindsey said she has wanted to do since she was 8 years old watching the television show "House."

"All this just isn't real yet," Lindsay said.

Levine was one of the students chosen to sing the class song during the commencement ceremony. The well-known country song, "My Wish," by Rascal Flatts was transformed into a ballad that Levine said described a wish for the senior class into their various future paths.

"My high school experience was centered around the Jefferson vocal music program," she said. "It has really defined my high school experience."

Guth went down a list of events that happened in 1995 - the year most of the graduates were born. He spoke of the truck bombing which devastated the Oklahoma City Federal Building, killing 168 people, the announcement of the first DVD and when the unmanned Galileo spacecraft landed on Jupiter.

Change, Guth told his students, is what is necessary to grow and reach goals.

"Too many people do the status quo or the traditional way of handling situations. Without change, you do not grow and neither does society," Guth said. "As you go through life, you will be faced with decisions to make. One, you need to take a moment and thoroughly think it out. Two, once you make the decision, don't second-guess yourself."

Class treasurer, Rachel Ransom, presented the class gift during which she called the day "beyond bittersweet."

"A welcoming board will be hung in the entrance of our school," Ransom said, adding that two of the agriculture mechanic students, Ryan Wiley and Ryan Hooe, will be constructing the frame for the board.

"This welcoming board will be a guide to help direct students and visitors around Jefferson High School."

The class of 2013 chose maroon and gold as its colors, the white fugi mum as the class flower and "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined," by Henry David Thoreau as the class motto.